The former Colorado State University golfer hadn’t posted back-to-back top-10s in more than three years, but managed that feat this month.
Two weeks after tying for ninth place at the Waste Management Phoenix Open in his hometown of Scottsdale, Laird matched that season-best showing on Sunday at the Genesis Open at Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades, Calif., earning $180,000.
Laird (pictured) played his final five holes in 3 under par on the tough Rivera course to shoot a 3-under-par 68 in the final round. His 7-under 277 total left him five strokes behind champion Bubba Watson.
Laird helped his cause considerably with an eagle on the par-5 17th hole on Sunday, when he drained a 15-foot putt.
The last time before this month that Laird recorded back-to-back top-10s on the PGA Tour was in February 2015, when he placed fifth in the Waste Management Phoenix Open and seventh in the Farmers Insurance Open.
Also in tour action on Sunday, Colorado resident Gary Hallberg finished 15th in the Chubb Classic in Naples, Fla., his PGA Tour Champions season opener.
In his best Champions performance since August, Hallberg went 65-70-72 for a 9-under-par 207 total in Naples. He finished 10 strokes behind winner Joe Durant and earned $25,632.
The Colorado Golf Hall of Famer, in just his third Champions start, tied for sixth place Sunday in the Chubb Classic in Naples, Fla.
Jobe (pictured), who turned 50 on Aug. 1, shot rounds of 70-69-67 for a 10-under-par 206 total, which left him five strokes behind champion Bernhard Langer.
It marked Jobe’s best showing on either the PGA Tour or the PGA Tour Champions since he placed second at the Memorial in 2011. He earned $57,600 on Sunday.
“He’s got a lot of game,” said Lanny Wadkins, a Golf Channel analyst who was working the Chubb Classic. “He may figure out how to win out here.”
Jobe, medalist at the PGA Tour Champions Q-school finals in December, won the Colorado Open in 1992 and five major CGA championships during the 1980s (three Match Plays, one Stroke Play, one Junior Match Play and one Junior Stroke Play).
Jobe, who has four runner-up finishes on the PGA Tour to his credit, was a resident of Colorado for about two decades before moving to Texas.